Stories

Honoring the legacy of baseball player, racial equality activist, and historic home run record breaker, Hank Aaron.

For more than 150 years, unwavering young activists have taken up the torch and blazed their own trail through history.

Lady Bird Johnson’s focus during the White House years shifted the spotlight from herself onto something that concerned all Americans: the environment.

Microscope used by Dr. Charles Shepard at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta.

The American Chestnut was so much a part of the American landscape for an estimated 40 million years, was made functionally extinct in forty. Atlanta History Center is looking to repair that.

Atlanta’s Games included legendary athletes, intense rivalries, and exciting underdogs. We’ve collected a few of our favorites from the summer of ‘96.

For a brief and tumultuous few weeks in 1946 and 1947, Georgia had three governors. What followed is the stuff of political legend.

The story of any Olympic Games includes the efforts of civic activism on the part of residents of the host city. Atlanta was no different.

Over the past six months, Atlanta History Center has received over 900 of your most intimate, heartwarming, heartbreaking, funny, and unpredictable pandemic moments. Thank you for trusting us to preserve these moments in history.

For the first time since our founding nearly a century ago, Atlanta History Center served as an early voting location and a polling place on November 3, 2020.

In 1928, when Swan House was completed, nearly one in every five Americans owned a car. Edward H. Inman owned six.

The Barb covered a variety of subjects relevant to its in-town audience, including arts and entertainment, health, politics, and community events. By fully digitizing the collection, researchers are now able to unpack a crucial time in the history of Atlanta’s LGBTQIA+ community from anywhere in the world.

Our city’s LGBTQIA+ history is nuanced and vast—and too complex to be contained in a single story. While this article provides an overview of more than half a century of activism in our city, it is by no means exhaustive.

To mark the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a trailblazing woman who carved out her place in history, we’re sharing this op-ed created as part of the My Wish For US initiative facilitated by Made By Us.